How Can I Get Good Dub Bass Sound! Options

[booyakabass]

I am about to embark on a Dub project and wondered if i can pick up some tips
such as recording ie Mics & placement or DI , Good EQ and / or plugins from Logic Express.

I'll be using a 5 string Spector Bass and a Fender Jazz bass probably and maybe an elec upright plus an
Ampeg head and a Ampeg cab with a 15", 10" & tweeter speaker.

I want to get that full bodied fat warm tone but without killing my speakers.

[volxs]

A couple of things I would suggest:

Firstly I would say you should di the bass and maybe mix in a little bit of the mic'ed cabinet. But for the most part I reckon you'll end up using more of the direct part than the mic'ed part.

Secondly I would say you should consider using heavy compression right from the get go. The really fat bass sounds on dub records are generally extremely heavily compressed. They have probably gone through multiple stages of compression from the first recording stage and as rickenbacker mentioned the Tape that they are recorded too acts to compress the sound too.

Thirdly add some nice subtle room reverb to the bass.


Lastly but probably most importantly when you are dealing with very fat bass you have to consider that it is going to take up a lot of space in your mix in terms of frequency range. You'll notice in the great dub records that nothing competes with that fat bass sound. There are generally no other bass sounds at all. The rest of the sounds are usually in the Hi-Mid and Hi frequency ranges. The kick drum on dub records is usually more clicky rather than thuddy (if you catch my drift).

I think what I'm trying to say is that part of what makes the dub bass sound so great/fat is that no other sounds are competeing with it.

Just a few of my random thoughts, you may already have considered all this.

Anyway hope it helps a bit

Cheers

volxs